By using precision gene engineering techniques, researchers at the Earlham Institute in Norwich have been able to turn tobacco plants into solar-powered factories for moth sex pheromones.
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Researchers are engineering tobacco plants to produce moth pheromones that could potentially be used to create traps that can lure the insects as a replacement for harmful pesticides.
Researchers at the Earlham Institute in Norwich, UK, have succeeded in turning plants, in this case tobacco plants, into veritable pheromone factories.
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